Richard Schreiber explains that software timelines depend on your project-management approach. Waterfall requires heavy upfront documentation and builds everything at once. Agile starts minimal and releases in increments, which he'll cover next.
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Hi, Richard Schreiber here, the software whisperer. And again, we're today talking about kind of part two of our frequently asked question, how long is it going to take to develop my software product based on our my vision as a client? And that depends really on what project management.
Methodology you're going to follow to develop the software. Predominantly, software is developed two ways in traditional waterfall or sequential manner where you build the entire product out one full time after spending a lot of time up front doing tons of documentation and project plans and schedules and a lot of head work. Or you develop it through what's called the Agile Project Management methodology, which you don't have to do as much of the upfront work, you just have to do enough of it to get the project started, but you build the product in increments instead of building it from soup to nuts like you would in the waterfall methodology. So we'll talk a little bit more about Agile in our next session. This is Richard Schreiber, the Software Whisperer. Keep asking those questions.